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'A symbol of French colonialism': The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo (2025)
Journal Article
Daga, M. (online). 'A symbol of French colonialism': The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo. African Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adaf006

In 2006, the government of Congo built a $10 million glass and marble mausoleum to house the remains and to celebrate the legacies of the French colonizer, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. This extravagant commemoration sits uncomfortably alongside global... Read More about 'A symbol of French colonialism': The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo.

Photographs, Emotions and Protest at a Colonial Memorial in Brazzaville (Congo) (2024)
Journal Article
Daga, M., & Djimet, I. (2024). Photographs, Emotions and Protest at a Colonial Memorial in Brazzaville (Congo). International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241289293

This article explores the insights of photo-elicitation interviews as a methodological genre for understanding how people construct narratives of a memorial associated with colonialism. We argue that the interaction with photographs made the research... Read More about Photographs, Emotions and Protest at a Colonial Memorial in Brazzaville (Congo).

'Speaking proper French': citizen bids for state recognition in Chad and Côte d’Ivoire (2024)
Journal Article
Daga, M., & Gallagher, J. (2024). 'Speaking proper French': citizen bids for state recognition in Chad and Côte d’Ivoire. Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs, 14(1), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.1332/20437897y2023d000000030

Theories of international recognition posit that states’ identities are formed through dialogical relations with other states. However, they often overlook the ways in which weaker states’ struggles, constrained within the languages of the powerful,... Read More about 'Speaking proper French': citizen bids for state recognition in Chad and Côte d’Ivoire.